The adult has a black crown, back, tail and breast band.

They are brown above and mainly white below, and all have a dark breast band.

Pale forms usually lack breast band found in other skuas and have dark body.

As with the breast band it is reduced in the non-breeding season.

The underparts are white, apart from a black double breast band.

The underparts are white, with a weak brown breast band.

The underparts and breast band are identical to the male.

She hardly breathed as his knife worked under her breast band.

Its underparts are white, but it has a blue breast band.

She stripped the red breast band off Willow and removed her own clothes.